Disinfecting apparatus.



PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

DISINFECTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,340, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed April 16, 1903. $eria1N0.15 2,883. (No model.)

To azz whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERCY SIMUNDT, manufacturer, a subject of the Emperorof Germany, residing at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, (whose full postal address is 8 Niirnbergerstrasse, Charlottenburg aforesaid,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DisinfectingApparatus,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The present disinfecting apparatus consists of a box open at one end, which through a sieve placed inside is divided into a chamber and an open mouthpiece. The chamber serves to receive the disinfecting medium. The mouthpiece is so constructed that by means of the same the box or capsule can be put or screwed on or placed inside of tube, funnel, or cup shaped attach-pieces of receptacles or on thus-shaped receptacles themselves and be easily removed without the possibility of disinfectinggases escaping into the air after the putting or screwing on.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a section through the apparatus on the line 00 a; of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the apparatus. Figs. 3 to 7 show the apparatus in different forms of applications and constructions.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The apparatus consists of a box a, made of one piece, which is provided at a suitable height with a depression b on the outside. -In the center of the bottom of the'box is fixed the socket or tube 0, provided with a flange at its upper end, which, together with the depression Z2, forms a prop or support for the sieve d, placed across the box. The sieve d is secured in its position by a screw 6, screw' to a proportionately considerable depth over the tube, funnel, cup, or otherwise shaped opening of the receptacle to bev disinfected. The mouthpiece h is for this reason suitably of a conical shape, so that on its being placed over the receptacle a sufficiently secure hold, and thereby a tight closure of the receptacle to be disinfected, is attained.

In Fig. 3 there is illustrated the application of the apparatus for the disinfection of telephone-mouthpieces. For this purpose, necessitating a frequent putting on and taking 011, the apparatus is suitably fixed to the telephone by a chain g, attached to the bottom of the box a, and a ring f around the mouthpiece p, so that the apparatus on being taken off remains in a certain connection with the telephone, and it-will thus be an easy matter to put the apparatus over the telephone when the same has been used. When the telephone is not in use, the apparatus is placed with its mouthpiece It over the mouthpiece 19 of the telephone. The disinfectinggases emanating from the lower part of the box are forced to enter into the mouthpiece of the telephone, so that'any disease-producing or other germs are destroyed or made innocuous.

Figs. 4 and 5 show the apparatus applied to a receptacle Z, serving to disinfect medical instruments or other objects. The mouthpiece it of the box a is in Fig. 4 tube-shaped and provided on the inside with a thread by means of which the apparatus can be screwed onto the tube-shaped attach-piece on the lid of the receptacle. In Fig. 5 the mouthpiece h of the box a has a conical shape and fits tightly inside the funnel-shaped attach-piece n of the receptacle Z.

The apparatus can also, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, be affixed to the door or any other part of a cabinet 4' and either in the form of construction shown in Fig. 1 or the forms shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The cabinet r may likewise be used for disinfecting medical instruments or other objects. According to the size of the cabinet two or more apparatus are required.

The apparatus represented in Figs. 4: to 7 can also be filled with a suitable sterilizing medium, so that the receptacle Z, Figs. 4 and 5, and the cabinet r, Figs. 6 and 7, could be used for the sterilization of comestibles and tion and the support and means for securing other substances. the sieve on the support, substantially as and What I claim as my invention, and desire for the purpose set forth. to secure by Letters Patent of the United In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 5 States, ishand in presence of two witnesses. v n a disinfecting apparatus the combina- T tion with a box (:1, adapted to contain the disin- PERCSL SIMUNDT fe'cting medium and provided with a mouth- Witnesses: piece h, an inner projection 12 and a central HENRY HASPER, 10 support a, of a sieve d resting on the projec- WOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

